One Day After The Flood Poem by Wael Karameh

One day after the flood,
I still not feeling good...
I feel empty...
my obsession of 'missing you' freezes my blood...
I try to rationalize...
to insist on forgetting you as I should...
I succeed for just few seconds...
then your love regrows inside me...
like a rose bud...
It is just one day after the flood...

One day after the flood
and I am still in shock...
how can I continue my life
how can I write poetry, how can I joke...
how can I sleep, how can I walk...
my mind is in total block
my body like a rock...
It is just one day after the flood...

One day after the flood
and I am simply dying...
I frequently hesitate to call your phone number
I check my e-mail hundred times today...
perhaps you wrote few words that stop me from crying...
I dream of a bridge of feelings that can overcome the distance
of a white horse with wings of hope on which we are flying...
please help me to get back to you
to fail in what I started...
because in love, it is impossible to run away...
it is not worth trying...


May 22,2008